Tony Noms: Daniel Radcliffe Snubbed, Joanna Lumley Honored

The Tony nominations were announced this morning (May 3) to honor achievements on the Broadway stage, and I’m sure Daniel Radcliffe‘s face is still smarting from the heavy slap just dealt to him by the Theatre Wing. In spite of his months of arduous dance and voice training, the Harry Potter star was denied a Best Actor in a Musical nomination for his role in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. To make that slap sting even more acutely, his co-stars John Larroquette and Tammy Blanchard both secured nods.

Joanna Lumley

But the UK was decently represented amongst the nominees, and sweetie dahling, Patsy Stone is a Tony nominee. Well not the booze-addled AbFab character herself, but her portrayer Joanna Lumley, who has won a Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination for her role in the comedy La Bête. (And we called it months ago!) Could she soon rest a Tony on her mantle next to her three BAFTAs?

Mark Rylance, Lumley’s British co-star in La Bête, was recognized in the Lead Actor category; however, the nod was for his performance in Jerusalem. That play, set in rural England, also scored a nod in the Featured Actor category for Mackenzie Crook, best-known to BBC America fans as Gareth from the original Office.

Meanwhile, Vanessa Redgrave is up for Best Leading Actress in a Play for Driving Miss Daisy, and veteran theater star Brian Bedford has a Best Lead Actor in a Play nomination for The Importance of Being Earnest. British actor Adam Godley is nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Anything Goes.

In a great year for British plays on Broadway, War Horse and Jerusalem are both up for Best Play, with Tom Stoppard‘s Arcadia, Wilde‘s London-set The Importance of Being Earnest, and Shakespeare‘s The Merchant of Venice earning Best Revival of a Play noms.

Colman Domingo, The Scottsboro Boys
Adam Godley, Anything Goes
John Larroquette, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Forrest McClendon, The Scottsboro Boys
Rory O’Malley, The Book of Mormon

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

Laura Benanti, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Tammy Blanchard, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Victoria Clark, Sister Act
Nikki M. James, The Book of Mormon
Patti LuPone, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Best Scenic Design of a Play

Todd Rosenthal, The Motherf**ker with the Hat
Rae Smith, War Horse
Ultz, Jerusalem
Mark Wendland, The Merchant of Venice

Kevin Wicks

Kevin Wicks founded BBCAmerica.com's Anglophenia blog back in 2005 and has been translating British culture for an American audience ever since. While not British himself - he was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri - he once received inordinate hospitality in London for sharing the name of a dead but beloved EastEnders character. His Anglophilia stems from a high school love of Morrissey, whom he calls his "gateway drug" into British culture.

The Latest from Mind The Gap

America’s British population has taken to the web to voice its displeasure at news that U.S. candy giant Hershey has successfully blocked our much loved U.K.-produced chocolate from being exported to the land of the free.